Buzz Poole
@buzzpoole.bsky.social
Sandorf Passage co-founder and publisher
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Author of Workingman’s Dead, part of the 33 1/3 series
Writer, editor, aspiring full-time putterer
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Author of Workingman’s Dead, part of the 33 1/3 series
Writer, editor, aspiring full-time putterer
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Buzz Poole
@buzzpoole.bsky.social
· Nov 13
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Want to support Sandorf Passage and score a great deal? From now until the end of December, we’re running an early-bird special on our 2025 subscription: 7 books for $100. Next year’s list is killer! Reskeet and follow for a chance to win a free 2025 subscription. sandorfpassage.org/product/sand...
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Translator Jonathan Reeder muses on the first sentence of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost—the longest first sentence he’s ever translated—for the wonderful Dutch Athenaeum bookstores. athenaeumscheltema.nl/vertalers/20...
Athenaeum | Scheltema | The first sentence of Donald Niedekker's Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
Toelichting: Jonathan Reeder vertaalde Donald Niedekkers Waarachtige beschrijvingen uit de permafrost als Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Translator Jonathan Reeder muses on the first sentence of Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost—the longest first sentence he’s ever translated—for the wonderful Dutch Athenaeum bookstores. athenaeumscheltema.nl/vertalers/20...
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Our book made @literaryhub.bsky.social's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025! Thanks to Amalia Gladhart + Lit Hub for featuring this fiery little book, and to @sandorfpassage.bsky.social passage for giving my translation a home. Here's to taking chances!
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Our book made @literaryhub.bsky.social's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025! Thanks to Amalia Gladhart + Lit Hub for featuring this fiery little book, and to @sandorfpassage.bsky.social passage for giving my translation a home. Here's to taking chances!
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“To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” Hilary Ilkay on @gayadorno.bsky.social’s translation of The Competition of Unfinished Stories. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
Announcing Our November Book Club Selection: The Competition of Unfinished Stories by Sener Ozmen - Asymptote Blog
From a Turkish perspective, there is no Kurdistan . . . . Ozmen’s novel meditates on what this effacement does to someone’s subjectivity.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” Hilary Ilkay on @gayadorno.bsky.social’s translation of The Competition of Unfinished Stories. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
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Asymptote chews on The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social): “To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, [Sener] Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
Announcing Our November Book Club Selection: The Competition of Unfinished Stories by Sener Ozmen - Asymptote Blog
From a Turkish perspective, there is no Kurdistan . . . . Ozmen’s novel meditates on what this effacement does to someone’s subjectivity.
www.asymptotejournal.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Asymptote chews on The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social): “To capture the precarious existential condition of Kurds, [Sener] Ozmen has crafted a book that resembles a piece of performance art, defying novelistic conventions.” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
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@tobiascarroll.bsky.social includes Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social) on the @wwborders.bsky.social November Watchlist! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Watchlist: November 2025 - Words Without Borders
Nonfiction, comics, poems, and fiction in translation: Tobias Carroll recommends a little of everything in this month's Watchlist.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social includes Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories (tr. @gayadorno.bsky.social) on the @wwborders.bsky.social November Watchlist! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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The UN General Assembly has designated today, November 25, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Monika Herceg’s Closed Season is a clarion call to not look away from or ignore the suffering of women throughout the world.
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The UN General Assembly has designated today, November 25, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Monika Herceg’s Closed Season is a clarion call to not look away from or ignore the suffering of women throughout the world.
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Last week’s Monika Herceg events in support of Closed Season were a delight: inspiring, challenging, surprising, and beautiful. Get a taste by watching this video from @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6d...
Brookline Booksmith is live! Transnational Series: Monika Herceg with Ellen Elias-Bursać
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November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Last week’s Monika Herceg events in support of Closed Season were a delight: inspiring, challenging, surprising, and beautiful. Get a taste by watching this video from @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6d...
RIP Jimmy Cliff. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISuH...
Jimmy Cliff - Wanted Man [from Roots Rock Reggae, 1977 documentary]
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November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISuH...
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Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Huzzah! Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is a @washingtonpost.com 2025 notable work of fiction! Thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social @portersqbooks.bsky.social @bseitz.bsky.social @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social @jamesfolta.com for championing this book from the jump!
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Well look at that, Jonathan Reeder’s translation of Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is one of this year’s most notable novels! “Niedekker presents us with a mosaic that is a pure delight on the page, packed full of sly jokes and inventive surprises.”
Our list of 50 notable works of fiction from 2025. Gift link: wapo.st/4849FNZ (10 best books will arrive in the a.m.)
50 notable works of fiction from 2025
Highlights among the year’s novels and short-story collections, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Well look at that, Jonathan Reeder’s translation of Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost is one of this year’s most notable novels! “Niedekker presents us with a mosaic that is a pure delight on the page, packed full of sly jokes and inventive surprises.”
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NYC: Monika Herceg is a force and tonight she will be joined by Underground Barbie author Maša Kolanović at the gallery Brief Histories in Manhattan. You don’t want to miss this.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
NYC: Monika Herceg is a force and tonight she will be joined by Underground Barbie author Maša Kolanović at the gallery Brief Histories in Manhattan. You don’t want to miss this.
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In the Portland, #Maine, area? Want to spend your Monday evening basking in poetry? Then get yourself to Lambs in South Portland tomorrow, November 17. This is a special opportunity to hear Monika Herceg read her exceptional work.
We’re thrilled to be bringing Monika Herceg to #Maine. Join us at the mighty Lambs in South Portland on November 17. "Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs to the victors, and about beauty that cannot fit into the confines we previously knew." —Olga Tokarczuk
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In the Portland, #Maine, area? Want to spend your Monday evening basking in poetry? Then get yourself to Lambs in South Portland tomorrow, November 17. This is a special opportunity to hear Monika Herceg read her exceptional work.
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“Hard to categorize” from Sandorf Passage is an instant to-read marker
Hard to categorize, impossible to forget, Dinko Telećan’s The Book of Visits engages with the world apace with the comings and goings of nature, those we love, and those we will never know. Discover this Croatian poet in April.
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“Hard to categorize” from Sandorf Passage is an instant to-read marker
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Boston: You have two chances to hear Monika Herceg read from and discuss Closed Season, a fusion of physics and politics that conjures righteously angry and alarmingly memorable work. See her at BU this evening, starting at 5:15, and tomorrow at Brookline Booksmith, starting at 7:00 PM.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Boston: You have two chances to hear Monika Herceg read from and discuss Closed Season, a fusion of physics and politics that conjures righteously angry and alarmingly memorable work. See her at BU this evening, starting at 5:15, and tomorrow at Brookline Booksmith, starting at 7:00 PM.
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Hard to categorize, impossible to forget, Dinko Telećan’s The Book of Visits engages with the world apace with the comings and goings of nature, those we love, and those we will never know. Discover this Croatian poet in April.
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hard to categorize, impossible to forget, Dinko Telećan’s The Book of Visits engages with the world apace with the comings and goings of nature, those we love, and those we will never know. Discover this Croatian poet in April.
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Ahead of the Closed Season events @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social and Lambs in Maine, @ninamaclaughlin.bsky.social chews on the new collection: “Monika Herceg writes with a controlled ferocity, alert to the sick ironies and absurdities of this world.” ninamaclaughlin.substack.com/p/poetry-of-...
Poetry of the void, Derek Walcott Prize winners, the beauty of science in photographs
New England Literary News
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November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ahead of the Closed Season events @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social and Lambs in Maine, @ninamaclaughlin.bsky.social chews on the new collection: “Monika Herceg writes with a controlled ferocity, alert to the sick ironies and absurdities of this world.” ninamaclaughlin.substack.com/p/poetry-of-...
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Boston, South Portland, New York: prepare for Monika Herceg’s forthcoming appearances by reading the title poem from her latest collection to appear in English @lithub.com.web.brid.gy. And then join us on November 13, 14, 17, and 18. lithub.com/closed-seaso...
“Closed Season,” a Poem by Monika Herceg
After climbing two hundred and twenty stairs hips come loose like hinges and a child’s hiccup echoes through the pelvis as if the belly button ate the hypocenter My downstairs neighbor spent months…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Boston, South Portland, New York: prepare for Monika Herceg’s forthcoming appearances by reading the title poem from her latest collection to appear in English @lithub.com.web.brid.gy. And then join us on November 13, 14, 17, and 18. lithub.com/closed-seaso...
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Today’s to-do list: 1. VOTE, 2. Get yourself a copy of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated by @gayadorno.bsky.social. It’s an unforgettable, wild ride! sandorfpassage.org/product/the-...
The Competition of Unfinished Stories – sandorfpassage.org
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November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today’s to-do list: 1. VOTE, 2. Get yourself a copy of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated by @gayadorno.bsky.social. It’s an unforgettable, wild ride! sandorfpassage.org/product/the-...
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Need help w/ this @maris.bsky.social challenge? Don’t sleep on Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated from Kurdish by @gayadorno.bsky.social. @lydiakiesling.bsky.social hails it as a “breathtaking, virtuosic, dark, funny, furious, sad, and genuinely strange work of fiction.”
Today is the last big new release day of 2025, and there's so much good stuff. Many, many famous authors and celebrities have books out today, but I challenge you to read a book by an author you've never heard of... www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
The Maris Review, vol 79
It's the last big new release day of 2025
What I read this week
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Hartman, translated by Ros Schwartz
Tomorrow night I'll be discussing I Who Have Never Know...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Need help w/ this @maris.bsky.social challenge? Don’t sleep on Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories, translated from Kurdish by @gayadorno.bsky.social. @lydiakiesling.bsky.social hails it as a “breathtaking, virtuosic, dark, funny, furious, sad, and genuinely strange work of fiction.”
Donna Jean Godchaux was, and will forever remain, an indelible part of the Grateful Dead legacy. And it seems only fitting to honor this studio singer steeped in the legendary Muscle Shoals sound with a track that the Dead never played live. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-q...
Grateful Dead - France (Studio Version)
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November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Donna Jean Godchaux was, and will forever remain, an indelible part of the Grateful Dead legacy. And it seems only fitting to honor this studio singer steeped in the legendary Muscle Shoals sound with a track that the Dead never played live. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-q...
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Attention, New York City: Looking to take the pulse on Croatian literature today? Then don’t miss Monika Herceg and Maša Kolanović reading, and in discussion with Dijana Jelača, at the gallery Brief Histories on November 18.
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Attention, New York City: Looking to take the pulse on Croatian literature today? Then don’t miss Monika Herceg and Maša Kolanović reading, and in discussion with Dijana Jelača, at the gallery Brief Histories on November 18.
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Boo! Great to see Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost (tr. Jonathan Reeder) on this Yale Climate Connections list. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/clim...
Climate fiction that will haunt you! » Yale Climate Connections
These spooky reads will keep you awake long after midnight.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Boo! Great to see Donald Niedekker’s Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost (tr. Jonathan Reeder) on this Yale Climate Connections list. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/clim...
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We’re thrilled to be bringing Monika Herceg to #Maine. Join us at the mighty Lambs in South Portland on November 17. "Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs to the victors, and about beauty that cannot fit into the confines we previously knew." —Olga Tokarczuk
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We’re thrilled to be bringing Monika Herceg to #Maine. Join us at the mighty Lambs in South Portland on November 17. "Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs to the victors, and about beauty that cannot fit into the confines we previously knew." —Olga Tokarczuk
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To celebrate both next week’s release of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories and translator @gayadorno.bsky.social being a Literary Host at tonight’s @wwborders.bsky.social Gala, check out an excerpt of this Kurdish novel @thedialmag.bsky.social. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
“The Competition of Unfinished Stories,” by Sener Ozmen — The Dial
An excerpt from the book.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
To celebrate both next week’s release of Sener Ozmen’s The Competition of Unfinished Stories and translator @gayadorno.bsky.social being a Literary Host at tonight’s @wwborders.bsky.social Gala, check out an excerpt of this Kurdish novel @thedialmag.bsky.social. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
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“I had to run in every direction, to explore this life myself.”
In Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy), childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself.
In Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy), childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself.
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“I had to run in every direction, to explore this life myself.”
In Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy), childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself.
In Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy), childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself.